📚 Chaparral, noun. 🔉 /ˌʃapəˈral/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (North American • mass noun): Vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes. ❗️ Examples: 1. This species lives exclusively in or near sandy soils within coastal dune and scrub communities and maritime chaparral. 2. Also important are mountain tops or ‘sky islands,’ and in some cases deep, shady canyons, that support chaparral, woodlands, or other communities that are relics of more temperate periods. 3. The thick chaparral of a remote region in the Sespe Wilderness, part of the Los Padres National Forest, in Ventura, California, has concealed a lost herd of desert bighorn sheep for more than five years. 4. We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic